Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-03-14
State News Items.

Dr. Louis Mas of Boston will he the
solo pianist for the coming festival at
Rutland.
The steamers vermont and evil
liams" are being thoroughly repaired at
Burlington
General W. w. Henry was elected
mayor of Burlington by 3l5 majority over
Z. NJ. Sutton, democrat.
The congressional appropriation for
the channel between Grand Isle and No.
Hero was reduced to So, 900.
Quite number from St. Adams will
locate with the Vermont colony that
leaves Brandon and vicinity April for
Dakota.
Methodist Conference is to be held ut st.
Johnsbury, commencing April 81 Bish
op Wallace is to preside
Major Josiah Grout of Derby will de-
liver the Memorial day address at Airing
ton and Hon. Henry C.. Bates of st.
Johnsbury at Bradford.
Six towns in Windham county have
elected women as superintendent of
schools-Athens, Brookline, Grafton,
Putney, Wilmington and Whitman.
Frederick Gosselin, the blind soldier
of st. Johnsburv who received the SILL,
coo pension not long ago, has made the
trustee of his estate.
There are 579 practicing physicians in
the state, OF whom eighty one are homeo-
pathic. Rutland has the largest number
(twenty -fve) and Burlington is next,
with twenty-four.
meeting of the butter-tub makers of
Vermont and northern New York was
held iii st. Adams recently for the purpose
of forming an association and establish
ing uniform schedule of prices to pre-
vent ruinous competition.
Rev. w. H. Stewart, the senior chap
lain in the navy, who has been supplying
the puIpitS of Baptist churches in YER
mont for several years, has been ordered
to duty in the North Atlantic squadron,
on the flagship of Rear Admiral Luce.
The will of Abraham Stearns of Wood
stock bequeathes $1,000 to St. james
church, the income OF which is To 90 to-
ward the support of the preaching, and
$500 to the parochial fund OF the diocese
of Vermont, the income thereof to be
used for missionary purposes.
Suit has been brought against the Cen
fral 81. y
to recover $50. 900 damages for personal
injuries received in the Hartford accident.
1t is probable the company will remove
the case into the United States circuit
court aud make Il test one OF it.
Charles Ward, aged IL years, of Wood |
stock, is to be tried in the Windsor coun-
ty court on the charge of numbering Sam
uel Jewell. A sister of the accused, wife |
of the murdered man, is the principal |
witness against him. Jewell was order
ed off the premises by young Ward, when
he threatened to cut the boys heart out.
Ward then shot at him twice, the second |
time with fatal result.
To the figures given from time to time,
the only answer has been that the growth /
of lliteracy in Vermont was due To the
great increase in our foreign-hOrn popu-
lation. But the statistics do not sustain
this view. Or native born white persons |
ten years old and upward who are unable |
to write, the census of 1870 gave Us 1862, |
while in 1880 the number had Increased |
to 5354. On the other band, of our for /
eign-born population, the number unable |
to write WIS 1884 in 1870 and 10, 1927 in
1880.
The new bridge of iron in Hartford is |
to be of five spans, $50 feet in length, OF /
the riveted lattice system; and 475 tons /
of iron will be used in its construction. /
1t is to be ''deck BRIDGE supplied with |
a safety guard devised by Governor /
Smith. All iron used in the construction
must have a tension strength Of not less /
than 90, 900 pounds to the square inch and /
is to be rolled at PittSburg, Pa. The |
bridge is to be built at the works of the
Vermont Construction Company at ST
Adams. The whole work is to he COM |
pleted within seven weeks from the time
the iron reaches St. Alhans.